In this video, Did You Know Gaming takes a look at the life story of legendary Nintendo developer Gunpei Yokoi — creator of the d-pad, Game & Watch, designer of the Game Boy, and so much more.
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Research/Writing by Dr Lava
Video Editing by TheCartoonGamer
Narration by Dazz
Special thanks to Takefumi Makino; J Gushi and Jack Craig for lending us their copies of his books; our translator Jacob; BeforeMario.com’s webmaster Erik Voskuil for consultation; and thanks most of all to Florent Gorges, for all his help making this video.
Sources/Further Reading:
横井軍平ゲーム館 (Gunpei Yokoi’s 1997 biography, approximately 40% in his own words, while the other 60% is paraphrased –by his co-author Takefumi Makino — from long interviews he did with Yokoi with the express purpose of writing this book)
ゲームの父・横井軍平伝 任天堂のＤＮＡを創造した男 (Takefumi’s second Yokoi biography, published in 2010)
Gunpei Yokoi: Vie Et Philosophie Du Dieu Des Jouets Nintendo (Yokoi’s French biography, by Florent Gorges)
The History of Nintendo Volume 2: The Invention of Game & Watch (by Florent Gorges, currently unavailable in English)
The History of Nintendo Volume 4: The Incredible History of the Game Boy (by Florent Gorges, available in English)
ポケモン・ストーリー (Pokemon Story book, contains an interview with Satoshi Tajiri)
ポケモンをつくった男 田尻智 (Satoshi Tajiri: The Man Who Created Pokemon biographical manga)
Gunpei Yokoi’s memorial in the January 1998 issue of Game Criticism Magazine (Japanese)
https://bunshun.jp/articles/-/6659
「ゼビウス」がなければ「ポケモン」は生まれなかった！？———遠藤雅伸、田尻智、杉森建がその魅力を鼎談。ゲームの歴史を紐解く連載シリーズ「ゲームの企画書」第一回
https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2006/1206/kaigai324.htm
https://web.archive.org/web/20160216000203/https://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/nsmb/0/0
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3960380A/en
https://www.4gamer.net/games/999/G999905/20180901010/
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